Aero
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I don't disagree that someone can take something and be influenced by it in a bad way. I do think that gangsters still look cool to people in movies and maybe it's in a less influential way as people can see them as characters and hopefully filter out the reality not to try and mimic them. As far as promoting a lifestyle I think at least today that's shifted. gangster rap to my knowledge doesn't really exist today. The bad influence today simply is about the exaggeration of the instant wealth that is flaunted by being a rap star or even just the glorification of getting money over anything. There seems to be an awareness though that this is not reality even with one of the bigger pop songs of the past year talking about it. Like I said, I don't deny that rap CAN have a bad influence. I don't agree that it has more of a bad influence necessarily than people wanting to emulate their favorite rock n' rollers like Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, The Rolling Stones, etc. who lived the sex, drugs and rock n' roll lifestyles.
You touched on the influence that Rap has on societies and I want to expound on that theory a little.
Rap hasn't just created a new form of "music" (more like spoken word) but it has influenced fashion, values, and the way people act.
The glorification of money IMO is a huge problem. Rap has changed the way that people who listen to that music view society. Making money and getting rich is more important than anything else and I think that has a negative effect on society as a whole. It's also spread to other form of media like movies where this value system is expressed to many more people who don't listen to the genre and I think those ideals just keep perpetuating because money as an end begins to seem like the norm. No wonder we now live in a society (at least here in the US) where getting rich is all that matters. I'd much prefer to live in a more simple time where people didn't think like this.